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Immigration-Restrictionist Group Voices Concerns Over Potential Lame Duck Pro-Illegal-Immigration Votes In Massachusetts Legislature

The immigration-restrictionist Massachusetts Coalition for Immigration Reform worries the legislature will use its lame-duck session to push through a pair of bills that are pro-illegal immigration. Among those bills is one that would allow illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses in Massachusetts (S.2641 and H.3012). Another

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Time for the President To Pay More Attention To Picking A Secretary of Education

Whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden wins in the presidential election of 2020, we need a new kind of Secretary of Education — someone who has classroom teaching experience beyond grade 5 and has administered an elementary, middle, or high school for at least a couple of years or so. This

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MassFiscal Says Two Environmentalist Groups Are Violating Campaign Finance Law In Massachusetts

Are a pair of environmental groups violating Massachusetts and federal campaign finance law? The Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance says so. The environmental groups so far are not commenting.

Politics

David DeCoste Touts Bipartisanship, Work With Constituents In State Rep Re-Election Bid On South Shore

State Representative David DeCoste sees a few ways in which he sets himself apart from many of his peers in the Massachusetts State House. The 57-year-old Republican from Norwell, who is seeking re-election in the Fifth Plymouth District (Hanover, Rockland, Norwell) in a race against former Hanover selectman and Democrat

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Ed Markey Says Big Tech Isn’t Doing Enough Censoring

Does big tech censor conservatives and political dissidents? Many Americans thinks so — 73 percent of U.S. adults say that it is likely that social media sites "intentionally censor political viewpoints that they find objectionable," according to Pew Research.

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Secret Ballot May Thwart Democratic Campaign to Shame Trump Voters

The Democrats are trying to make it socially unacceptable to vote to re-elect Trump. It seems to be working so far, at least up to a point. The Republican governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, says he wrote in Ronald Reagan. The Republican governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker, says he "

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Oklahoma Found A Way To Tax Illegal Immigrants; Should Massachusetts Follow Suit?

There are an estimated 250,000 illegal immigrants in Massachusetts, according to Pew Research, and mass deportation is not happening anytime soon. Should Massachusetts do what Oklahoma does and try to extract some more tax revenue from them?

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Ed Markey Calls Amy Coney Barrett’s Originalism ‘Racist,’ ‘Sexist,’ ‘Homophobic’ … ‘Just A Fancy Word for Discrimination’

Massachusetts U.S. Senator Ed Markey called originalism — a legal theory that judges should interpret the U.S. Constitution as it was drafted – "racist," "sexist," "homophobic," and "just a fancy word for discrimination." He also linked U.S. Supreme Court nominee — and